1941 Indonesia - Netherlands East Indies - 10 Gulden Cent

Another unusual find

Personally I love hunting for not too common finds when it comes to (partially) silver coins. This purchase was done a few weeks ago, together with the Japanese 10 Sen and Latvian 1 Lats I already shared earlier.

As I mentioned in these posts, when I find one coin that I want to have, I have to justify the shipping fees by trying to combine some coins otherwise it's just a stupid purchase in my opinion. Luckily, most of these sellers have a ton of coins for sale and usually, I can find some stuff to combine. It also helps that often these purchases are done from the proceeds of some of my listings on the platform, which makes it even more fun to buy them as I'm literally exchanging old unused items taking in too much space for small silver coins that barely take up any space.

Whenever I see a Dutch Gulden coin, even if not from Holland, I at least check it out. And this is exactly what I did when I noticed the seller had a 1941 10 Gulden Cent from Netherlands Indies for sale. It was a very cheap coin, but when I noticed it contained some silver, I figured it would be a nice one to add to this order because of the low cost and having a new coin variety in my collection. Some may prefer having loads of the same but I actually love finding out more about each coin that I add to my collection. Of course, at some point I will focus on stacking those that will be easy to sell later when the time is right as well, such as the Canadian maple leaf. For now, this is great for me.

It's fun to think that I'd never specifically hunt for many of these low cost coins I recently bought but yet something lured my attention to them and I decided to pull the trigger. Usually the reasons are very different as well.

Let's check it out

As I know nothing about the coin, usually Numista is my first go to. Sometimes I have to google a coin because I don't apply the right search for it to show up in Numista, while it does after a search on google.

Source

The coin contains 0.720 silver and 0.280 copper and has been demonetized January 1 1952. What I particularly find funny to see is that looking at the obverse, I could initially easily mistake it for an old Dutch coin rather than one from Netherlands Indies because of the similarities of these coins.

Now looking at the reverse:

If I were to see this side only, I'd easily think this is Arabic because clearly I don't know these languages myself. Below more info:

Souce

So much writing, I expected it to say more than "one-tenth gulden".

Source

Finally, I noticed that the 1942 mint of this coin is by far the most frequent one to find, namely 64%, while the 1941 P version I have is less frequent with 21%.

Conclusion

I'm happy to add another unusual find, which I'd normally not hunt for directly, to my collection as it's half the fun discovering new silver coins. I'm trying to see if I can find some new things for the collection in the next month, fingers crossed.

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All pictures above are mine except the screenshots, which have a source.